Life is like a box of Germans...
...sometimes ya go freakin’ insane.
BERLIN — Germans’ sagging national pride and collective sense of gloom have reached critical levels, the country’s top media companies say. So they have decided to do something about it. ...
...a four-month, $36 million campaign to lift German spirits. Using the slogan “You are Germany,” the national pep talk began Monday with an emotional two-minute TV ad featuring celebrities such as figure-skating champion Katarina Witt and the theme song from the movie Forrest Gump.
“You are the miracle of Germany,” the celebrities tell their countrymen in the ad. “A butterfly can unleash a typhoon. The air moved by the flap of its wings can uproot trees a few kilometers away. Just as a breath of air can become a storm, your deeds can have an effect."
Other than the state-education-level “comprehension” of Chaos Theory, this is silly on so many levels.
They tried [tried being the operative word, here] to elect Merkel whose campaign said “Yaah—We’re in deep doo doo and gotta stop the Socialist hemorrhaging. Here’s an idea; let’s make an economy!” Ten percent plus unemployment. One percent minus economic growth.
Why should we give a worry? The last time the Germans needed a wheelbarrow to carry the price of a loaf of bread, ....it didn’t go so well for the rest of us.
Are they also runnig clips of Jeff Goldblum trickling water down Laura Dern’s wrist??
Posted by on 09/30/05 at 08:00 AM
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